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work out

there is hope that you will not need hope only will * i have gotten into short poetry for it lasts long and gets me * all people want all people to want all people but few will ever be wanted   * freud says a mother is a woman a son can’t have because … Continue reading

scrubbing skin with a coal, or oneself

all life comes from water which is why when wet we wrinkle and prune for we are the stuff of the ancients * there’s a way to believe oneself i just believe that i believed it away * what you need to know about what you need is all you need to know about all … Continue reading

lunar lakes

all the meaning in the world is found in the deep sadness of not being found in one’s hiding spot the kind that makes them want to just reveal to everyone how good they are but can’t for this is the game and to have meaning the rules must be sought * remember you were … Continue reading

hide and seek but never be found

i trust the universe even though it lied to me that i could go back to the beginning and find myself there * father a drinker mother a pourer me a not-me as i am always farther than my mouther self can be from home * racial privilege is when white out means rewriting and … Continue reading

after ever

the pages are always blank even when there is there   it is never finished for to finish would be to admit that it does not go on and every story always does * there is only one story ever told: nothing is never happening * mean as it is writing is meant to make … Continue reading

each week, winning numbers though i never play

how lucky it is to feel nothing and still be able to be loved * heartbreaks are the easiest part finding out where next is is where everything breaks down * rejection is a belief that was true that is not and it is the greatest success for you can change do better do worse … Continue reading

a lie

if you have reached the end hanging know that there is no answers in life and worse that death is no answer to reach like a baby to the sky * after all i have had i have only learned that life is senseless because it is incensed with death that often makes a lot … Continue reading

hope-sick

i thought i could fix this but i was crazy the missing nut a part * drunks and the maimed require other limbs to bring them home and healthy * we will collapse soon like a star onto itself white to black hands folding onto hands mouths onto mouths where no light can escape * … Continue reading

a red dwarf

you come from stars that that have collapsed into energy that no planet has known before for there has been no knowing before you there collapsed and without a plan but still hoping that the universe will go your way even though it already has * you are the universe discovering itself with limbs that … Continue reading

beauticians for bugs

to become the butterfly the caterpillar must hide and crack have its insides spill out and become totally liquid unstable and unmanageable   for one who doesn’t know growth the dance looks like destruction and the butterfly must appear as an angel of death rising from its coffin * the loudest sound comes just before … Continue reading